I have been listening to the sessions from Matt Miller's yearly summit called "Ditch That Textbook"-#ditchsummit . The first session this year was from a man named Ken Shelton. He spoke about a lot of inspiring things-but what stuck with me was his advice Read More......

There are a number of key moments in the history of scientific progress over the last few hundred years. We often hear about new factories and Fordism, or about transport and railways. Communications though are just as important, and here is one highlight Read More......

Over the past two weeks or so, there have been number of important tweets sent-out by education researchers who I respect. I thought I’d collect them into this one post and add them to The Best Resources For Understanding How To Interpret Education Research. Read More......

I’ve written shared a fair amount about retrieval practice (see The Best Resources For Learning About Retrieval Practice) and how I’ve used it in class (see Here’s How I’m Trying To Incorporate More Retrieval Practice In Class – Let Me Know How I Can Read More......

I’ve previously posted about research on parental styles finding that of ““authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive,” authoritative (“demanding and controlling, but they are also warm and receptive to their children’s needs”) tends to be much more Read More......

By Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now We loved our previous Arctic animals unit . There are so many areas to explore in the Arctic. Today, I'm sharing a new Arctic unit with Montessori-inspired Inuit activities using free printables. I also have Read More......

John McCain Would Have Passed the Anne Frank Test is an article from August that I’m just getting around to writing about. The most important piece in it is the passage I highlighted at the top of the post. It seems to me that it would be worthwhile discussing Read More......

For the past six months, I’ve been running a series of guest posts on various aspects of teaching in English Language Learners, including many about specific content areas. You can see them here. I’d like to expand that series out to teaching both ELLs Read More......

Editor’s Note: Differentiation is a challenge for all of us. I invited Juan Gomez to share his ideas on how to apply it in math class, and am adding it to The Best Resources On Differentiating Instruction. You can see all my resources on the topic here. Read More......

Second Grade Go Math 5.6 Practice 2-Digit Subtraction Color By Numbers Your students will adore these Color By Numbers worksheets while learning and reviewing important skills at the same time! You will love the no prep, print and go ease of these printables. Read More......

Voice of America Learning English has been producing some very accessible videos for English Language Learner about the U.S. Government. They seem to be publishing one every three weeks – at least for the past few months. However, for some reason, they Read More......

Earlier today, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg welcome new U.S. citizens at a Naturalization ceremony. As I posted yesterday, this week Neflix released a documentary also featuring her at another Naturalization ceremony (‘OUT OF MANY, ONE’ IS NEW NETFLIX Read More......

The Zinn Education Project is a great resource, and has been on The Best Teacher Resource Sites For Social Justice Issues list it began. They just unveiled a redesign and expansion of their website, and it looks great! One of the new features I’m most Read More......

Even as suspensions fall, Memphis students are being kicked out of school longer, data shows is an important article from Chalkbeat, and the money quote is in the first line: By focusing on reducing suspensions, school districts can hide the fact that, Read More......

It’s a sad day. Here are some new resources, and you might also be interested in NOT VERY “BEST” LISTS OF THE WEEK: GUN VIOLENCE. ‘It’s Preventable’: Sandy Hook Parents Promote App For Reporting School Threats is from NPR. After Parkland, a New Surge Read More......

Almost 15,000 Migrant Children Now Held At Nearly Full Shelters is from NPR, and it’s depressing to think our government would think it is better to hold these kids in detention facilities instead of letting families take them in. The Trump Administration Read More......

As usual, this list starts very short and ends up very long as the end-of-the-year round-ups begin to proliferate in a week or so. I’ll be adding them as they become available thought, also as usual, I’m pretty picky about what reviews end-up here. You Read More......

After my Gingerbread unit I always like to follow up with a week of other runaway food stories. Here are some of my favorites: Set in the southwest, the tortilla runs away and gets eaten by a coyote. The animals chasing him are desert animals too. Set Read More......